Next up: health care. Cynthia Tucker, a brilliant editorialist with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, comments on the lack of compassion for uninsured immigrants and uninsured Americans in this supposed “city on the hill.” Andrea Nill describes the outrageous claims by Senator Grassley (R-IA) that the Baucus bill doesn’t do enough to screen out undocumented immigrants (speaking of shameless!). And check out this Matt Bor’s cartoon from September 16, which skewers the likes of Grassley.

There’s a must-read piece by Drew Weston on racism – is it or isn’t it? He uses immigration and does the thought experiment on how Americans would react if most undocumented were from England rather than Mexico as a way to distinguish explicit from implicit racism.